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18 September 2020
Open Library of Humanities Wins Highly Commended ALPSP Award
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are delighted to announce that the Open Library of Humanities has been Highly Commended for the ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing 2020. We would like to send a huge thanks to the judges and many congratulations to the two joint winners, Jus Mundi and The DAISY Consortium. The awards were…
10 February 2020
OLH Readership in 2019 and a Reflection on the First Half Decade
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
Publishing in open access formats implies a series of challenges and opportunities. The opportunity of having research published openly is that it will always improve the speed, efficiency and efficacy of research, its reproducibility and the potential for collaboration. Open access also increases …
16 October 2019
The Open Library of Humanities Wins Coko Foundation’s Open Publishing Award
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are delighted to announce that the Open Library of Humanities has been awarded a Coko Foundation’s 2019 Open Publishing Award in the category of Open Publishing Models yesterday at the FORCE2019 conference in Edinburgh Scotland. We would like to send a huge thanks to the judges, and to all the i…
10 March 2018
Introducing EmpowOA at OLH
Posted by James Smith
Humanities publishing can be a harsh and unforgiving place for open access.We understand. In 2018, the Open Library of Humanities will pool its knowledge and resources to empower its membership, its authors and the wider humanities open access community. Now is the time to form the bonds that w…
12 September 2016
The Open Library of Humanities: Year One
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
September 2016 marks the first year anniversary of the launch of the Open Library of Humanities. To celebrate, we thought we'd share some statistics about the platform and its growth! Journals and Articles In the first year, the OLH has hosted 909 articles across the journals that…
28 September 2015
OLH Launches
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
It is with great pleasure that we announce the launch of the Open Library of Humanities. Over two years in the planning and execution, the platform starts with seven journals, supported by 99 institutions. Our estimated publication volume for year one is 150 articles across these venues. …
5 September 2015
Open Library of Humanities obtains formal charitable status
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
We are pleased to announce that the Open Library of Humanities (a UK company limited by guarantee with no shareholders) is now formally registered as a UK charity (registered charity number 1163413). While the motivation for the platform has always been to create a publisher with a not-for-prof…
6 July 2015
Birkbeck awarded $741,000 grant to expand Open Library of Humanities platform
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
Birkbeck, University of London has, been awarded a three-year grant of $741,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to cement and expand a new model for open-access publishing in the humanities disciplines. The Open Library of Humanities platform, directed by Dr. Martin Paul Eve and Dr. Caroline …
29 May 2015
First subscription journal flips to open access through OLH
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
  The Open Library of Humanities is extremely pleased to announce that the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry will be the first subscription journal to move to the completely open-access model offered by the OLH. The journal, previously published by Gylphi, centres on the po…
1 May 2015
OLH Launches in the UK with Jisc Collections
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
We are delighted to announce that the Open Library of Humanities has become the UK's first collaborative publishing consortium partnerning with Jisc Collections, who procure electronic content for all of the UK's research libraries in higher education. Our transformative Library Partnersh…
3 December 2014
OLH opens for submissions
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
We are very pleased to announce that the OLH is now open for submissions to its new megajournal, which covers the humanities disciplines. The submission platform, developed by Ubiquity Press, is based upon PKP's excellent Open Journal Systems, but has been extensively modified to accommod…
7 April 2014
Funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
We are delighted to be able to announce that the OLH is being funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, who have provided an initial planning grant to the University of Lincoln to build the technological platform, business model and prepare for launching both our megajournal and monograp…